Die for carriage-dash frames



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P. T. SMITH.

DIE FOR CARRIAGE DASH FRAMES.

No. 312,029. Patented Feb. 10, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATE T OrFIcE.

FREDERICK T. SMITH, OF PLANTSVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

DIE FOR CARRIAGE-DASH FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,029, dated February10, 1885.

Application filed July 18, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK T. SMITH, of Plantsville, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inDies for Forging Carriage Dash-Frame Blanks; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and theletters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in

Figure 1, one of the lower angles of the frame with the dash-foot formedthereon; Fig. 2, the blank from which the article, Fig. l, is forged;Figs. 3 and 4, perspective views of the two parts of the die.

This invention relates to an improvement in dies for forgingcarriage-irons, with special reference to the dash-frame.

In the more general construction of dashframes the foot is welded to theframe by the carriage-smith.

The object of my invention is to construct the dashfoot, made as a partof the frame, without welding, and so that such part of the frame may besold as an article of manufacture to the trade, to be completed bysimply extending such part of the frame, and in dies whereby such ablank is produced, and as more fully hereinafter described, my inventionconsists.

Fig. 1 represents one angle, A, of a dashframe with the foot B extendingtherefrom. To construct this portion of the frame as an article ofmanufacture, I shape the blank as seen in Fig. 2, splitting it, as ate,at the broader end and then bending the one part, 0, downward atsubstantially right angles to the part D, the-shank-like portion E beingsufficient in length to form the foot.

F represents one part of the die, and G the other or companion part. Inthe meeting faces of these two dies a cavity, 1), is made at rightangles to a cavity, 0, these two cavities joining at right angles and ofa shape corre sponding to the finished frame at and near From the loweror bottom porthe angle.

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tion, 0, a cavity, (1, extends outward at substantially right anglesthereto, this cavity cl corresponding in shape to the shape of the footat its junction with the frame. The cavities in the two parts F G arealike. The one is fixed on the anvil and the other in the hammer of acommon drop-press. The blank is laid into the die so that the arms orparts 0 D E lie in the respective portions of the cavity in the die, andthen the two parts of the die are brought forcibly together to bring themetal to the shape of the cavity in the die. The article is then trimmedto take off the tin produced in forging, and it is complete, ready formarket. The foot is made as an integral part of the frame withoutwelding. Thus made the article is sent'to market. The carriage-smithextends the bars of the frame by simply adding thereto straight rods ofcorresponding size and of the requiredlength. In some cases the foot isrequired to be attached at the extreme outer end of the frame, insteadof a short distance therefrom. In that case the cavity (Z in the die ismade at the extreme end, and as a continuation of the portion 1) of thecavity, as indicated in broken lines 6 c, Fig. 3. In some cases a footis required at the center of the frame. In such case the cavity 0 iscontinued across the face of the die, as indicated by the brokenlinesff, Fig. 3, and where a central foot is desirable a conneeting-baris also desirable between the lower and upper bars. To provide for suchconnection the cavity is made in direct line with the cavity cl, asindicated by broken lines 6 6, Fig. 3, in which case the right-angularprojection b from the part 0 will be the central connection.

I claim The herein-described dies for forging earriage-daslrframeblanks, consisting of the two parts F G, each constructed withcorresponding cavities, b c d, substantially as shown and described.

. FREDERICK T. SMITH. WVitnesses:

FRANCIS D. WHITTLEsEY, LIZZIE B. WI-IITTLESEY.

